Manhattan socialite Beata Boman, a self-described self-described "former model and fashion designer" was arrested Tuesday afternoon for stealing a scarf that's possibly worth more than that clunker you're currently driving around.

This celeb has a weird request when he goes to the gym. This Real Housewife wants to make life hell for new cast members. And this actor's dirty joke ended in a sexual harassment lawsuit. He should leave the locker room humor in the locker room.

The Wall Street Journal did a little review of corporate jet records, and guess what: corporate CEOs of public companies are regularly using shareholder money to fly themselves to resorts, on private jets. The particulars are quite disturbing!

Gawker staff writer Brian Moylan appeared on VH1's Morning Buzz on June 16, 2011. Check out the clip above. For media requests, please contact Kevin Prince at kevin@gawker.com.

According to the New York Times' James Risen, Bush White House officials asked the CIA to gather dirt on and discredit left-wing academic Juan Cole because they didn't like the things he wrote on his blog.

According to the New York Times, Anthony Weiner has told friends that he's resigning amid increasing pressure from Democrats, and "after having long discussions with his wife," who just returned from a trip to Africa with her boss Hillary Clinton.

Above is a typical photo of Yana Lapikova, the former model that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has just hired as his new personal photographer. To take the pictures, not to be in them! Behind the camera, now, Yana. Having pictures with Yana and Vladimir together could be very bad for your health. *Dark scowl.*

Thanks to the tireless reporting of the New York Post's legal correspondents, we learned the vivid details of this one time that some rich people fought over the last Pad Thai in a Manhattan Trader Joe's frozen food aisle. And now we have the verdict: opera singer Marcella Caprario has been acquitted of all charges. In honor of this monumental verdict, let's revisit the Post's play-by-play of the January "fight" between Caprario and Dr. Catherine London:

A Pennsylvania court on Monday upheld an animal cruelty conviction for a dog groomer, Holly Crawford, who sold "goth" kittens with piercings on eBay, for $100 a piece.

Sean Murphy, an Englishman, just couldn't accept his middle finger as-was. For five years a thumbnail-sized wart near its tip itched and maybe even hurt him. No fancy creams ever made it go away. So one day Murphy drank some beer, grabbed his shotgun, and took bold action:

An announcement on jihadi message board Ansar al-Mujahideen today states that Osama bin Laden's right hand man, Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahiri is now in charge of Al Qaeda. As the old man celebrates his promotion, here a few facts about "The Doctor":

On Sunday, a woman named Missy Alison went to a Starbucks in the Long Island, N.Y. town of Centereach for a Mocha-choco-loco-hobo-latte, and while there witnessed what she calls "one of the most brazen and unapologetic displays of homophobia I have ever witnessed in my entire life." She wrote an outraged letter to the company, which her wife published on the Internet. The company noticed!

After nearly five months of rehabilitation in a Houston hospital, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was released yesterday, and is living at her husband Mark Kelly's home in the suburbs of Houston. She'll now begin an outpatient rehab program at the same hospital. The Arizona Republic spoke to Kelly yesterday:

Women "in large swaths of the U.S." aren't living as long as they were just a generation ago, according to experts who study these things. Maybe the women in these "large swaths" should move to other swaths where women live longer. (Quitting smoking and avoiding obesity are also recommended strategies.) [Image NatalieMaynor/via Flickr.]

Usually when God decides to randomly say "Heyyyy" to us mortal beings, he chooses some sort of food as his venue—a tortilla, or a powdered-cheese puff-pellet, or a pierogi. But in nudging Kansas woman Audreanna Phelps, God went super-personal, showing up on her actual person.

Sitting kills you, and so does talking on your cell phone. And now, Harvard researchers are saying watching just two hours of TV a day will also kill you.

If there's one big advantage that Barack Obama has over his Republican counterparts, it's the youth vote. Which is why Kenneth del Vecchio, a former New Jersey judge, created a pro-life horror movie called The Life Zone in an attempt to attract younger, conservative voters. On tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert took del Vecchio's idea and explained how other Republicans could take advantage of it.

The Vancouver Canucks (hint: hockey) lost the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday night, falling to the Boston Bruins 4-0 in the seventh game. This is a big deal in Canada, where hockey is basically their version of American Idol. And so they've decided to riot.

Does the world really need another URL shortener? One backed by Lady Gaga, 50 Cent and Pepsi, at that? One that's run by a CEO described almost entirely by the fact he lives on NYC's hipster-laden Lower East Side? [Gizmodo]

On Tuesday, President Obama visited Puerto Rico, the first trip of its kind by a sitting US president since John F. Kennedy traveled there in 1961. As it turns out, though, Obama's visit only lasted a few hours. So why even bother going? On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart provided a theory.